Needle-threader.



M. L. EADS.

NEEDLE THREADER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21. ma.

1,286,257. Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

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MORGAN L. EADS, OF I-IARROGATE, TENNESSEE.

NEEDLE-THREADER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORGAN L. EADS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harrogate, in the county of Claiborne and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Needle- Threaders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices known as needle threaders; and the object of the same is to produce a convenient article of this kind by means of which an ordinary needle can be inserted in the barrel and quickly threaded, no matter how dark the day or poor the eyesight of the operator.

This object is carried out by constructing the device in the manner hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 an end elevation of this device complete,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section through the same, and

Fig. 4 is a still further enlarged perspective detail of the moving parts.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the needle in position above the barrel of Fig. 3 as described below.

The body of the device is a block 1 preferably made of metal although it is quite conceivable that it could be made of glass or other transparent material so that the operation and action of the parts on the interior would be visible from the outside. In this block is formed an upright opening which I will call the barrel 2, into which is to be inserted the needle. The latter I have illustrated in Fig. 5 above Fig. 3, N designating the needle having a butt B, and I showing about the proper position of the eye of the needle. Transversely through the block are formed two channels, both intersecting the barrel, and in the lower right hand corner of the block is formed a notch 3 intersecting the lower channel and the barrel at the point where they intersect each other. This notch is for the insertion of the thread. In the upper channel moves a slide 4.- best seen in Fig. 4, the same having a knob 5 on one end by means of which it is manipulated and a slot 6 through its body at a point where it crosses the barrel 2. The remote end of the slide is preferably turned eration is as follows:

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 3, 1918,

Application filed February 21, 1918.

Serial No. 218,527.

down into afoot 7 as seen at the left of Figs. 1, 3, and 4.. Carried by this foot is one end of a hook 8 whose. body extends along the lower channel 9 as best seenin Fig. 3 and the bill 10 of. this hook is preferably formed in the shape of half an arrow head, with the notch thereof downward, the whole being of a size to move freely within said channel 9.

\Vith this construction of parts, the op- The needle N is inserted into the barrel 2 and it passes through the slot 6 in the slide 4 and comes to rest at a point where its eye I is directly opposite the channel 9, the barrel near its lower end being slightly flattened on two sides so as to cause the needle automatically to take this position. The thread (not shown) is now passed up into the notch 3, and it lies across the needle opposite the eye of the same. Now the knob is drawn upon or moved to the right in Fig. 3, with the result that the hook 8 is moved forward and the bill or head is projected through the eye of the needle until it catches over the thread, and then by pressing the knob in or to the left, the hook is moved backward so that the bight of the thread is carried through the eye and the needle is threaded. A length of the thread is now broken oil",

and the needle is raised out of the barrel 2, the thread pulling out with it.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. In a needle threader, the combination with a block having formed therein a barrel for the needle and a notch intersecting said barrel. and also a pair of channels at right angles to the barrel and intersecting the same; of a slide movably mounted in one channel and having a foot at one end, and a hook movably mounted in the other channel and connected at one end with said foot, the bill of the hook adapted to be moved across the point of intersection between the barrel and notch when the slide is manipulated.

2. In a needle threader, the combination with a block having formed therein a barrel for the needle and a notch intersecting said barrel, and also a pair of channels at right angles to the barrel and intersecting the same; of a slide movable in the upper channel and having in its body a slot where the barrel intersects this channel, a knob on one end of the slide, a foot at the other end of the slide, and a hook movable in the other channel and having one end connected with said foot and a bill at the other end underlying the slot in the slide, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a needle threader, the combination with a block having formed therein a barrel for the needle and a notch intersecting said barrel, and also a pair of channels at right angles to the barrel and intersecting the same; of a slide movable in the upper channel and having a knob on one end and a foot at the other end, a'hook movably mounted in the other channel and having one end connected with said foot and a half-arrowhead bill on its other end so disposed with reference to said foot that it may be moved by the slide across the barrel at the point where the latter intersects the notch.

1-. In a needle threader the combination with a block having an upright barrel, a transverse channel intersecting the same, and an oblique notch intersecting the channel at the point where the channel intersects the barrel; of a hook movably mounted in the channel and having a half-arrowhead bill at its inner end, and means at its outer end for reciprocating the hook, for the purpose set forth.

5. In a needle threader the combination with a block having an upright barrel, a transverse channel intersecting the same, and an oblique notch intersecting the channel at the point where the channel intersects the barrel; of a hook movably mounted in the channel and having a half-arrow-head bill at its inner end, a slide guided along the block on a line parallel with said channel and having an operating handle and connections between the slide and the outer end of the hook, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MORGAN L. EADS.

Witnesses A. B. HARMoN, T. WV. SUTTON.

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